Vision, Mission + Values

VIVO Media Arts Centre is located on the unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. Incorporated as Satellite Video Exchange Society, VIVO is a steward of critical history and an agent for emergent experimental media arts practices. Our programs foster formal and critical approaches to media arts, and reflect the diversity of contemporary technologies and communities that coalesce around new forms of knowledge and creativity. VIVO builds an engaged audience through workshops, production support, distribution, artist residencies, performances and exhibitions as well as curatorial and archival research. We are also the caretakers of a significant and substantial repository of media art history. Through these activities and our extensive archival resources, VIVO plays a unique role in facilitating and fostering artistic practices in the region.

‍VIVO’s vision is for everyone to have the means and agency to creatively question and participate in their mediated worlds.

‍VIVO’s mission to nurture past, present and future media arts discourses and communities through equitable and public access to resources for preservation, production and dissemination.

VIVO is undergoing strategic planning in the fall of 2024, and we will update our Vision, Mission, and Values. During this time, we have removed the language around our current values, which were first drafted in 2017. More to come as we move through this important work.

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